That’s what one venture capitalist said on stage at the inaugural GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, and it’s a reminder of why it was so exciting to welcome more than 600 folks to our first technical event ever on Wednesday in Bellevue, Wash.

It was an action-packed day that showcased the cutting-edge cloud-related trends and ideas that are transforming the technology world. You can see a recap video of the action here:

Speakers represented some of the biggest companies in cloud computing today, from Amazon to Google to Microsoft to Docker.

We had a great lineup of speakers and presenters — folks like Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie; Docker CEO Steve Singh; Cloud Foundry Foundation Executive Director Abby Kearns; and others — who shared insight about the world of cloud computing and addressed pressing technical questions to our attendees about everything from DevOps to serverless computing.

We loved hosting a world-class conference of this kind in the Seattle area, which many consider the epicenter of the cloud industry with companies like Amazon and Microsoft, in addition to countless startups that are all building cloud-related technologies.

The morning continued with “Power Talks” featuring Kearns, the executive director of Cloud Foundry; Joe Beda, Heptio co-founder and co-creator of Kubernetes; Sunny Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Apptio; and Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of Amazon AI.

A break for lunch allowed attendees to network with each other and check out sponsor booths with cool giveaways like free airline tickets and e-readers; VIP attendees and speakers were able to connect at a special VIP meal.

Attendees spent the afternoon soaking up knowledge at three separate technical tracks — DevOps, Microservices/Serverless and Artificial Intelligence — as well as a business track that featured a venture capital panel, a media panel and a startup showcase.

Thanks to Kevin Lisota for snapping photos of the event, and to all of our attendees for being apart of it all. And of course, a big thanks to title sponsor, Salesforce, and all our other GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit sponsors for helping to make this event happen:

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Taylor Soper is a GeekWire staff reporter who covers a wide variety of tech assignments, including emerging startups in Seattle and Portland, the sharing economy and the intersection of technology and sports. Follow him @taylor_soper and email taylor@geekwire.com.